node-red-contrib-interactive-ssh

How to use

This is still very much in development. It was mostly created for a specific use case and may not work in all circumstances.

By checking the Keep Open box, it will attempt to reconnect to the SSH host if the connection is lost using an exponential backoff of up to 20 minutes. You can use a Catch node to see what errors are thrown from the SSH node that aren't already being caught and handled.

Keep in mind that the SSH password is saved in plain text in your Node-RED config directory

Future work will add the ability to use an SSH key file.

Input

msg.payload <string> = The command that you wish to be sent to the remote shell

Output

msg.payload <string> = The text printed to STDOUT on the remote shell

msg.host = The IP address of the connected host. This is also returned on errors so can be used in conjunction with the Catch node so only one Catch node is needed to watch all uses of the Interactive SSH node.